FOI REF: FOI/2023/4895
You asked
1. Telephony and UC/ Collaboration
a. Please confirm the manufacturer of your telephony system(s) that are currently in place b. When is your contract renewal date?
c. Who maintains your telephony system(s)?
d. Do you use Unified Communications or Collaboration tools , if so which ones?
2. Microsoft
a. What Microsoft 365 licence do you have across the business e.g. E3, E5
b. Which partner looks after your Microsoft tenant?
c. Where do you host your applications? Do you have on-premise infrastructure or do you host your applications in public or private cloud? Which?
3. Storage
a. Does your organisation use on-premise or cloud storage or both?
b. Please confirm the on-premise hardware manufacturer c. Please confirm your cloud storage provider d. What is your annual spend on cloud storage?
e. How do you back up your data and with who e.g. Backup as a Service
We said
Thank you for your enquiry. Please see the following answers to your queries.
1. Telephony and UC/Collaboration
a. Please confirm the manufacturer of your telephony system(s) that are currently in place.
We use Microsoft Teams for Telephony across our estates (so laptop based) except for a handful of emergency handsets that are linked to MS Teams that are made by Yealink or Polycom.
b. When is your contract renewal date?
31 March 2023
c. Who maintains your telephony system(s)?
GCI/Modality/NASSTAR
d. Do you use Unified Communications or Collaboration tools , if so which ones?
MS TEAMS
2. Microsoft
a) What Microsoft 365 licence do you have across the business e.g. E3, E5
E5 and E1
b) Which partner looks after your Microsoft tenant?
Boxxe Ltd
c) Where do you host your applications? Do you have on-premise infrastructure or do you host your applications in public or private cloud? Which?
On-premise and Public Cloud
3. Storage
a. Does your organisation use on-premise or cloud storage or both?
Both
b. Please confirm the on-premise hardware manufacturer
Lenovo/Fujitsu/Pure/Dell VNX
c. Please confirm your cloud storage provider
Microsoft/Amazon/Google Cloud Platform
d. What is your annual spend on cloud storage?
£948,000 per year based on average spend
e. How do you back up your data and with who e.g. Backup as a Service
VEEAM / to EMC Data Domain